Philippe Henriot

Philippe Henriot (7 January 1889-28 June 1944) was the Republican Federation deputy for Gironde from 27 September 1932 to 31 May 1942 and the radio spokesman of Vichy France during World War II.

Biography
Philippe Henriot was born in Reims, France on 7 January 1889, and he was a devout Roman Catholic and an avid poet. During the 1930s, he entered politics with the right-wing Republican Federation party, and he served in the Chamber of Deputies from 1932 to 1942. Henriot became a committed member of the Catholic nationalist right and came to oppose the republican cause, embracing anti-communism, anti-Semitism, anti-Masonry, and anti-parliamentarism. At the beginning of World War II, he was anti-German, but, following the break between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union in 1941, Henriot supported collaboration with the German occupiers. He joined the Milice in 1944 and became the Vichy France regime's radio spokesman, and, on 28 June 1944, he was shot to death at his office by French Resistance members.